Dumb, dumber, dumberer and dumberest

Please understand me here. I am the farthest thing from being prudish, and I do not shock easily. In fact, anything that consenting adults want to indulge in of a sexual or naughty nature is absolutely fine with me. Party on and I hope it all goes well and enticingly. Life’s short and tension-filled enough that there is no reason we need to deny ourselves.

Yet, yesterday, I saw something that shocked me. Shocked me not because there was a sexual component to it – which there was – but more because of the sheer stupidity of a juvenile act.

I’ll admit that I grew up in that prim time in which there were ‘good girls’ who saved the ubiquitous ‘it’ for marriage. While I never bought into the concept, and was more of the attitude of “Hey, your Mom does, so why can’t you?” Such a crass comment rarely earned a second date, by the way. But, in that context I know that mores have changed and this is a more liberated and liberal time in terms of what is acceptable. Quite frankly, I think that is a good thing, within certain limitations.

What I am saying is that when I was young, females exercised at least a certain ‘public’ decorum. What they did in the back seat of ’58 Malibu was entirely another matter, but it was essentially private.

So, here is the scene that shocked me. I live across the street from a town park and playing field. There is a junior high on the other side of the park, and the school uses the field for their various athletic endeavors. One of these endeavors seems to be running the circuit of the park. Oh well, it’s good exercise, I guess, even if a little brain-dead.

Yesterday I am out on my front lawn, which looks across the street to the field, planting a dogwood tree. Kids are running. They seem to be always running. Two girls, about 14 or 15 I guess, are lagging behind and kidding around. There never seems to be a teacher or coach urging them to excel.

They run past my line of vision when suddenly one of the girls lifts up her black T-shirt and literally, bare-breastedly, flashes a car driving by on the street. I was a bit incredulous and thought, ‘How stupid was that?’ No, I’m not a child-molester, so it didn’t do anything for me on a personal basis. But, what would invoke such behavior? An excess of sleazy queens like Britney and Paris as role-models?

I shook my head and continued to plant my tree. The same two girls make their next circuit, and I can hear the one girl goading the other, whereupon the ‘other’ takes her T fully off and runs completely bare breasted to the end of the field.

That to me took the stupidity prize. There are creeps out there. We all know that. It might have seemed to them like a juvenile prank in the context of mooning, but to me it was more than that, and much more dangerous.

Wow, we live in a scary world, folks. Does somebody really want to make it scarier? What would prompt her to be so idiotic? As I say, the nudity didn’t shock me, but the risk she took did.

I toyed with calling the school, but what was I to say? “One of your kids was flashing her boobs at passers-by?” Whatever it was, it would sound stupid. Yet, I believe kids should be protected because kids make dumbass judgment calls, mainly because they are kids.

I’m still toying with the idea of letting the school know, but I’m just not sure yet how I’ll approach it.